Despite amassing a back catalogue of film and TV spanning five decades, Salma Hayek almost turned down a character she felt ...

Robert Towne is a giant, a pillar of the New American cinema which is arguably the best era of film in the short history of the medium. He was one of the film brats, ...

Robert Towne, the screenwriting icon who won an Academy Award for his original script for “Chinatown,” died Monday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 89.

Thus spake screenwriter Robert Towne to his then-girlfriend, Julie Payne, one night in 1970. And therein lies the seeds not only of “Chinatown” (1974), one of the greatest dark fables America ...

A writer and director are talking to the US Navy for ideas, and the hope is that original star Denzel Washington will spark ...

“Robert Towne once said that Chinatown is a state of mind,” Wasson wrote. “Not just a place on the map in Los Angeles, but a condition of total awareness almost indistinguishable from blindness.

Robert Towne's script for the 1974 film Chinatown became a model of the art form and helped define the jaded allure of his native LA. His other credits include Shampoo and 1990's Days of Thunder.

If he does board the project, Washington will need a new on-screen adversary. Hackman died in February at the age of 95. Tony ...

The original film, released in 1995, was hailed as one of Hackman's best performances, and the movie won five awards and ...

Robert Towne, who has died aged 89, was a celebrated Hollywood scriptwriter best known for his 1974 film Chinatown, which is now recognised as a classic of modern cinema. The film depicts the ...

Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed plans for a sequel to Crimson Tide. It comes 30 years after the submarine thriller debuted in ...

Crimson Tide is an action-packed submarine thriller film released on May 12, 1995, by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.